Back to Richard with what I hope is pertinent.
First, these so-called modern digital cameras are what I call techno-vain; they can create profound confusion in what is really a simple camera 'interface'. They like to throw up onto the screen every darned setting they are capable of so that the world is obscured with irrelevant metrics, much like a few photographers view the world - as photometrics, not imagery, not the Thing Itself.
You (and I) have used small cameras and our brains for forty and fifty years, respectively. We don't need that stuff. If you get one, then I suggest you find one you can tell to shut-up, be silent, don't display a darned thing in the viewfinder but the scene itself. If the camera will not operate properly without shutting up and stifling the techno display, then it points to profound shortcomings in the technology. If it has more than three buttons, ask yourself what the heck is going on here, what is wrong with the technology, why you need a pilot's mentality to make a picture.
Oh, one more - if you get one that has a default setting to makes a phoney a camera-like noise, don't buy it - spite the manufacturer. Once I was near a table full of camera guys and heard what was almost the classic Nikon-F (close to the Nikon-S motordrive but with mirror sound.) It came from a little digital camera. I knew that very moment that something was terribly wrong with the whole paradigm.
I work with digital on the day job and I tell you I just hate the cameras. I hate any inanimate thing that sticks irrelevant technolgy in my face. I don't even like camera gear that uses batteries. So that's my prejudice, up front and center.
Peace,
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